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My Random Diary is a juxtaposition of the adapted description as diary entries of unrelated events from various news archives and the photos taken during the site visits of the covered violent events. The randomness is attributed not only by the chances Leung Chi Wo made for his personal reflection from the scenes of violence, but also the celebratory events coincidently occurred on the same day exactly 50 years ago. From 2017, the artist began to visit to various locations where bomb attacks once took place during the 1967 Riots—a series of violent events boosting the complicate sentiments towards to colonial government in Hong Kong. On the same date, at the same location, exactly fifty years later, the artist captures the site and the sky above it with black and white film. The series evolves into an ongoing personal engagement of violent events from bombing to domestic conflicts, sexual assaults and gang fights. Through polysemy and polyphony, Leung systematizes the contemplation and conception of two kinds of parallel worlds: one temporally synchronous but spatially distant, another temporally distinct yet spatially unified.

Leung Chi Wo, co-founder of Para/Site Art Space, has widely exhibited internationally in major art institutions, including biennales in Venice, Shanghai and Gwangju, Queens Museum of Art in New York, Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo, Tate Modern in London and Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. His work has been reviewed in Yishu, Artforum International, Art Review, Leap, ArtAsiaPacific and New York Times, etc. He is Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.